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BSS, Barisal

A Taka 274.65 crore budget for the Barisal City Corporation (BCC) for 2008-'09 with a revised budget of Taka 69.47 crore for the immediate past fiscal year was announced here on Thursday evening.

However, no new taxes have been imposed on city dwellers this year.

Acting BCC Mayor Awalad Hosein Dilu announced the budget at a press conference in presence of divisional and district level officials, journalists, elites, commissioners and professional groups at the Nagar Bhaban here.

Taka 39.48 crore would come from revenue incomes while the remaining money would be earned from the government, foreign donors and agency's funds, the Mayor said.